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Brethil
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Apr 3 2015, 3:45am
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My FIL used that trick for years
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to take my husband's French fries, or cookies, or whatever. He would usually say, "Look! The Concorde!" and whoosh. He tried it with my son when he was about six. Got a stony-eyed gaze and guarded French fries. My husband couldn't believe it. "Why do you get me every time?" he said indignantly. 
You can keep the Boston Cream. I love my jellies. That makes it easy for us! 
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Apr 3 2015, 6:41am
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You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Apr 3 2015, 6:45am
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A nighttime ninja parade...somebody's gotta make this a reality :D //
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You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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Annael
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Apr 3 2015, 2:42pm
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I worked with a guy for three years
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before I realized just how often he was kidding me. Completely deadpan delivery. And he was the accountant so I'm afraid I didn't expect him to be making jokes. Once I figured it out though . . . he was hilarious. We hired him on the side to do our taxes, soon he was doing taxes for half the family, & became a good friend. But I blush still to think how long it took me to cotton on to him.
People with soul can identify with another person's basic human struggle without either judgment or indifference.
-- Thomas Moore
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Brethil
Half-elven
Apr 3 2015, 3:06pm
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My grandmother was a prankster, and a very funny lady,
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and I am NOT particularly gullible - I am a bit pranky myself, but she had a joke that would sucker me in for YEARS. The setting was driving past a cemetery, especially a very large one on the outskirts of NYC....and she would suddenly, in the midst of other conversation, animatedly ask some version of this:
"Oh my! Look at all those markers! Do you know how many people are dead in there?"
"No!" I would say, enthralled.
"All of them," would be the serene answer.
I fell for this at least a dozen times over fifteen years. 
(This post was edited by Brethil on Apr 3 2015, 3:07pm)
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Ataahua
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Apr 3 2015, 7:17pm
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I was watching the Graham Norton Show last night
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and a comedian mentioned how having kids opened up a whole new world of pranks. His favourite was when his daughter was five and they'd be invited to a housewarming. When people were being shown around the new house he'd have his child stop in a hallway and point into an empty room and say, "Why is that little boy crying?"
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Annael
Immortal
Apr 3 2015, 10:49pm
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sending to my great-nephew 
People with soul can identify with another person's basic human struggle without either judgment or indifference.
-- Thomas Moore
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Oh my Eru. That is devilishly clever...! //
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